Human Giant Hijacks MTV

We don't know how something as original, subversive, and hysterical as The Human Giant can be so successful, but apparently it is, because MTV is letting the group take over their network (and its sequel channel) for 24 hours this weekend starting Friday at noon. This sounds as crazy on MTV's part as parents leaving their six-year-old twins in charge of the house for the weekend, but you the viewer get to reap the rewards. Aziz Ansari assures that they have free reign to do whatever they want to do for 24 hours, including airing any show they want and inviting any guest they want, so of course they've invited a superteam of comic heroes like Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Showalter, Jon Benjamin, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Jon Glaser, Eugene Mirman, Andy Blitz, and Rob Riggle, many of whom have already appeared on the sketch show. There will also be musical guests and, presumably, some Human Giant episodes or something. The Crazy Police will be on call in case, you know, things get too crazy.

Join them live at your television set for the full extravaganza if you can, because there's not a whole lot of 24-hour torrents out there.

Matt Besser Walks With Me

Fellow comedy reporters The Coming have posted an info-packed interview with Matt Besser, who has been keeping himself so busy that we can't stop posting features about him. Among the major revelations is that he'll be playing the guitarist in John C. Reilly's faux hit band in Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow's biopic spoof Walk Hard, and that he's Kanye West's official improv coach for his upcoming untitled HBO mockumentary created by Larry Charles. Futhermore, he's writing a new film called Safety First for pal Amy Poehler.

Meanwhile, the Upright Citizens Brigade just finished a weekend of filming for a new Shout! Factory DVD release of ASSSSCAT 3000, which previously failed to catch on as a Bravo series. The four taped specials featured all four UCBers, as well as Horatio Sanz, Chad Carter, Sean Conroy, and Andrew Daly, plus improv-launching monologues from Will Arnett, Tom Lennon, Ed Helms, Paul F. Tompkins, and Jen Kirkman. Besser hopes the DVD will do well enough to kick off a sort of UCB/Shout! Factory imprint label where they can release even more footage from their various live output. He also announces that they're working on a new UCB website to feature daily videos and more.

All in all, a pretty good way to stick it to Comedy Central for canceling one of the best sketch comedy shows of all time, don't you think?

Will Arnett Invades Last Week's Top Story

Will Arnett will produce and star in Space Invader for the fledgling young-adult-friendly Fox Atomic company. The story is being kept somewhat under wraps, but it is known to involve an astronaut love triangle. Writers Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger began work on the screenplay months before the recent crazy-diaper-stalker-bitch story that swept through America last week, but it must have still been quite a coup for the project, which went through a brief bidding war on Monday before landing on six figures.

Reger and Lisbe have a healthy decade of TV writing experience behind them, working on Just Shoot Me, Norm Macdonald's A Minute with Stan Hooper, and the vastly underseen comic gem Manhattan, AZ. Variety mentions that they also have two features, The Wrong Nine Year Old and Little Orphan Anthony, but a little digging shows that the former, about a man whose life is suddenly intruded on by a slighted fourth grade classmate, was sold in 2002 and doesn't appear to have moved forward since, while the latter, about a couple who mistakenly adopts the world's oldest orphan, as played by Anthony Anderson, seems to be only one year younger and just as dead.

Arnett has a lot of projects of questionable existence of his own, including The Ambassador, Jeff the Demon, Get 'Em Wet, Dad Can't Lose, and Most Likely to Succeed, but he will definitely be appearing in The Brothers Solomon, Blades of Glory, Spring Breakdown, Semi-Pro, Hot Rod, and On Broadway. And we're getting tired of posting that massive list every time he signs on to something else, which is every couple of days.

LINK

Arnett and Fischer Answer Casting Call

Will Arnett and Jenna Fischer have signed on for supporting roles in two hotly antipated comedies, Semi-Pro and Walk Hard. Arnett will play a sports announcer for Will Ferrell's ill-fated basketball team, while Fischer will play a June Carter type to John C. Reilly's pseudo-Cash in Judd Apatow and Jake and Kasdan's musical biopic spoof. Both films are set for release in 2008.

Arnett has been keeping mad busy since the unfortunate Arrested Development termination, with The Brothers Solomon, Hot Rod, Blades of Glory, and Spring Breakdown all in post-production for release this year. He's also attached to star in Dax Shepard's epic hot-tub-salesmen tale Get 'Em Wet, and as the titular role in Ali G Show writer James Bobin's Jeff the Demon. Last April, it was also announced that he had sold a pitch to DreamWorks for The Ambassador, in which he would star as the son of the Vice President, who makes an ass of himself overseas as an American representative. That one's to be written by Michael Schur, currently writing for the American Office.

Which brings us brack to Office star Fischer, who's currently in the midst of that show's third season, as well as starring in another Reilly vehicle, Quebec, as Seann William Scott's character's wife. She also has small roles in, um, The Brothers Solomon and Blades of Glory. Small world.

LINK
LINK

A Trailer in Glorious HD

IGN has posted the first trailer for Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as two solo figure skaters who are banned from the game after fighting, but return to competition through a loophole that allows them to perform as a couple, pitting them against champion skating couple Will Arnett and Amy Poehler. So...go watch that.

No, you're not losing it, that was indeed William "Mr. Feeny" Daniels as the figure skating commissioner, and Craig T. "Coach Fox" Nelson as the skating coach.

Also, Ain't it Cool News has posted a positive but enormously vague review of an early screening of the movie, which hits theaters March 30.